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Want to take a great photo of a butterfly? Walk with this Oregon expert
Want to take a great photo of a butterfly? Walk with this Oregon expert
Want to take a great photo of a butterfly? Walk with this Oregon expert

Published on: 07/31/2025

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Two Blue Coppers overlap in this photo by David Lee Myers taken at a Mount Ashland meadow in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.A silver-spotted skipper caterpillar was photographed by David Lee Myers on Porcupine Gap near Pilot Rock in the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument.Butterfly expert David Lee Myers led a group from Pollinator Project Rogue Valley on Mount Ashland on June 29, 2025.David Lee Myers photographed this Mountain Parnassian (Parnassius smintheus sternitzkyi) in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest on the Pacific Crest Trail north side of Big Red Mountain.This photo of a red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) nectaring on teasel in Wallowa Lake State Park, Oregon, appears inTwo-tailed Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio multicaudata) are photographed by David Lee Myers on a delphinium in Ashland's Mountain Meadows Community.An Arrowhead Blue (Glaucopsyche piasus) laying an egg on a lupine blossom bud on Mount Ashland Ski Road was captured by photographer David Lee Myers.This Monarch emerged from its chrysalis, pumped fluid into its wings to stretch them, and is seen drying them so it can fly, said butterfly expert and photographer David Lee Myers.Mourning Cloak and Great Arctic were photographedDavid Lee Myers captured this rare sighting of a Thicket Hairstreak nectaring on yarrow in the Metolius Preserve of the Deschutes Land Trust, near Camp Sherman, Oregon.Two-tailed Tiger Swallowtail and Woodland Skippers, nectaring on thistle, on Baldy Creek Road in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument as seen inThis Green Anglewing (Polygonia faunus) was photographed by David Lee Myers in the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest, between Fish Lake and Forests Road 37.This photo by David Lee Myers shows a Zephyr AnglewingSupporters of Pollinator Project Rogue Valley joined butterfly expert David Lee Myers on a butterfly field trip on Mount Ashland.Supporters of Pollinator Project Rogue Valley joined butterfly expert David Lee Myers on a butterfly field trip on Mount Ashland.Supporters of Pollinator Project Rogue Valley joined butterfly expert David Lee Myers on a butterfly field trip on Mount Ashland.Supporters of Pollinator Project Rogue Valley joined butterfly expert David Lee Myers on a butterfly field trip on Mount Ashland.Butterfly expert David Lee Myers led a group from Pollinator Project Rogue Valley on Mount Ashland on June 29, 2025.

Ashland photographer David Lee Myers has been devoted to butterflies for 30 years.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/hg/2025/07/want-to-take-a-great-photo-of-a-butterfly-walk-with-this-oregon-expert.html

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